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''Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'' is a 1965 American exploitation film directed by Russ Meyer. It follows three go-go dancers who embark on a spree of kidnapping and murder in the California desert. The movie is known for its violence, provocative gender roles, and its eminently quotable "dialogue to shame Raymond Chandler." It is also remembered for the indelible performance of star Tura Satana, whose character Richard Corliss called "the most honest, maybe the one honest, portrayal in the Meyer canon." ''Faster, Pussycat!'' was a commercial and critical failure upon its initial release, but it has since become widely regarded as an important and influential film.〔 ==Plot== "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence." The narration over images of an optical audio track gives way to three go-go dancers—Billie (Lori Williams), Rosie (Haji), and Rosie’s lover, their leader, Varla (Tura Satana)—as they shimmy and shake their way through the title song before racing their sports cars across the California desert. They play a high-speed game of chicken on the salt flats and encounter a young couple out to run a time trial. After breaking the boyfriend’s (Ray Barlow) neck in a fight, Varla kidnaps and drugs his bikini-clad teenage girlfriend, Linda (Susan Bernard). In a small town, they stop at a gas station where they see the wheelchair-bound Old Man (Stuart Lancaster) and his muscular, dim-witted son, “the Vegetable" (Dennis Busch). The gas station attendant (Mickey Foxx) tells the women that the Old Man was crippled in a railway accident, “going nuts" as a result and receiving a large settlement of money that is hidden somewhere around his decrepit house in the desert. Intrigued, Varla hatches a scheme to rob the Old Man, and the three women and their captive follow him back to the ranch. At the ranch they encounter the Old Man, his elder son, Kirk (Paul Trinka), and the Vegetable, and they all dine together. At lunch, Billie taunts Rosie when Varla leaves with Kirk, hoping to seduce him into revealing the location of the money. Linda subsequently escapes the drunken Billie and runs away into the desert. The Old Man and the Vegetable pursue in their truck with obvious unwholesome intentions. The Vegetable catches Linda and seems about to assault her, but he collapses in tears as Varla and Kirk arrive. Kirk finally acknowledges his father’s lecherous nature and the Old Man’s hold over his younger brother, and he vows to have the Vegetable institutionalized. He tries to take the hysterical Linda into town in the truck, but the Old Man says that he has thrown away the keys, and Kirk and Linda set out across the desert on foot. The film hurtles towards its conclusion in a whirlwind of violence. Varla drives back to the house and tells Billie and Rosie that they should kill the men and the girl to cover up Linda’s kidnapping and the murder of her boyfriend. Billie refuses, but as she walks away, Varla throws a knife into her back just as the Old Man and the Vegetable arrive. Rosie and Varla hit the Old Man with their car, killing him and knocking over his wheelchair to reveal the money hidden inside. Rosie is stabbed and killed by the Vegetable while trying to retrieve the knife from Billie's body. Varla rams the Vegetable into a wall with her car, injuring him. She drives off in the truck and overtakes Kirk and Linda, chasing them into a gully. Varla and Kirk fight hand-to-hand. She gets the better of him until Linda hits her with the truck, and she dies. Kirk and Linda drive off together in the truck as the end credits roll. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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